Hoftsumberge

Hoftsumberge Castle ( Kalnamuiza Castle ) is the castle of the Livonian Order in Tervet ( Tervetsky Territory of Latvia), built in the 16th century. Very scarce ruins have survived from it.

Castle
Kalnamuiz Castle
Latvian. Kalnamuiža him. Hofzumberge
A country	Latvia
condition	ruins

The castle was built by Livonians on a long hill, in that part where the castle of the wooden Tervets fortress , burned in the 13th century, used to be. In terms of plan, Kalnamuiz castle looked like a square with sides of 25 m. It is still not clear where the entrance gates were. Until the 17th century, inclusive, the walls were plastered, judging by the remains of the stucco on one of the walls. On the ground floor in the southern corner was a fireplace.

During the Swedish-Polish war, the Poles strengthened there and during the hostilities the castle was severely damaged. In 1701, the castle was occupied by the Swedes during their campaign in Courland under the leadership of Charles XII . In 1798, when Courland was already part of Russia, the Russian emperor Paul I granted Kalnamuizha to his favorite P.A. Palen . By that time, the castle had been in ruins for a hundred years, but the count did not begin to rebuild it. It belonged to the Palenov family until the 1920s.

In 1939, the small and only conservation of the ruins was initiated by the Office of Monuments. Only fragments of the outer walls have survived to the present day: part of the south-eastern wall 23 m long, part of the south-western wall 19 m and a particle of the north-western wall 4 m long. The height of the fragments is 7-8 m, the thickness is 1.1 m. The outer parts of the walls are made of field stones, and the gaps between them are filled with fragments of brick and tile in a lime mortar.

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  Vintage drawing

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  Masonry

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